Managed Security Services

Cyber Security as a Service

Cyber Security as a Service (CSaaS) is a comprehensive, subscription-based service that provides businesses with access to advanced cyber security capabilities and expertise at a fraction of the cost of hiring an equivalent in-house team.

Operating on a monthly subscription model, Cyber Security as a Service includes a wide range of sub-services such as a virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO), penetration testing, security monitoring and response, a Security Operations Centre (SOC), compliance & certifications (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC2, etc.), and provides security awareness training for your staff.

Cyber Security as a Service is designed to be flexible and scalable, and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of any organisation, ensuring robust protection against an evolving landscape of cyber threats.

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Challenges Addressed by CSAAS

Limited Time: You need to focus on your clients and growing your business. You don’t have the time required to dedicate to building cyber security and consequently, cyber security unintentionally becomes an afterthought, increasing the risk of an attack that may result in significant financial and reputational damage

Lack Of Expertise: Cyber security is a complex field that encompasses a wide range of skills, from threat detection and incident response to compliance management. In-house IT staff lack the specialised cyber security expertise required to address the full spectrum of cyber threats, leaving businesses vulnerable to cyber threats.

Cost Constraints: You’re committed to protecting your business, but you don’t have the unlimited budgets of large enterprises. Hiring and maintaining a full-time team can be costly OPEX spend (not CAPEX), which puts pressure on your bottom line.

Increasing Threats: 2024 saw a 75% increase in successful cyber attacks on cloud technologies. For most SMBs, continuously monitoring the threat landscape, investing in the right controls to maintain the required level of protection needed whilst also focusing on growth is an impossible task.

Benefits of Cyber Security as a Service?

Achieve Strategic Alignment: A dedicated Virtual Chief Information Security Officer brings strategic leadership, ensuring that your cyber security strategy is aligned with your wider business goals. Technical resources support to ensure wider technology roadmaps align to cyber security objectives.

Operational Support: An experienced cyber security manager serves as your primary point of contact for all security-related matters. They not only oversee the implementation new security controls, but they track and monitor the progress over time ensuring that progress is maintained.

Continuous Monitoring: Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) operates 24/7 and provides continuous monitoring of your IT estate for you. We continuously monitor your network for suspicious activity and perform rapid incident response, ensuring you are protected around the clock.

Evidence Your Assurance: On-going assurance (e.g. penetration testing) identifies and remediates vulnerabilities across your IT estate. Skilled ethical hackers simulate real-world attacks to test your defences, uncovering weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them.

Onboard Clients Faster: We help you achieve and maintain industry-recognised certifications such as ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and SOC2 which have been known to speed up procurement processes by up to 7 times. We manage the entire certification process from start to finish.

Actively Reduce Risk: Your dedicated cyber security manager will actively project manage and track risk remediation activities such as implementing two factor authentication or tightening the security of your cloud environments.

Measure Return on Investment: Annual cyber maturity assessments evaluate and enhance your organisation’s strategic security posture, allows for mid-course adjustments and enables you to evidence the return on cyber investment to your leadership.

Reduce Premiums: Insurers recognise that services like Cyber Security as a Service decrease your risk of being attacked and will reduce your insurance premiums, especially if you have achieved ISO27001. This cost saving helps pay for the new Cyber Security as a Service investment.

Who Needs Cyber Security as a Service?

Cyber Security as a Service (CSaaS) is an essential service for businesses facing increasing cyber threats with limited resources, without the overhead of maintaining an in-house security team.

Small to Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs): These businesses often lack the resources to hire a full-time cyber security team but face the same threats as larger enterprises. CSaaS provides them with access to top-tier security expertise and solutions at a fraction of the cost, e.g. a 300 person e-commerce company that needs to protect customer data and comply with industry regulations.

Rapidly Growing Companies: Businesses experiencing rapid growth, mergers, or acquisitions can benefit from CSaaS to ensure their security measures scale with their expansion and integration of new technologies, e.g. a technology scale-up or start-up expanding into international markets that needs to navigate diverse regulatory requirements.

Highly Targeted Sectors: Industries that are frequent targets for cyber attacks, such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, require robust and continuous security monitoring and response capabilities, e.g. a challenger bank handling high volumes of sensitive customer data and have regulated timescales they need to respond to potential cyber incidents to.

Businesses Undergoing Digital Transformation: Companies migrating to the cloud or adopting new digital solutions can leverage CSaaS to ensure their transition is secure and compliant with relevant standards, e.g. a manufacturing company implementing IoT technologies to improve operational efficiency.

Organisations with Compliance Requirements: Businesses that must comply with strict regulatory or compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001) can use CSaaS to meet these requirements without diverting internal resources away from business activities, e.g. a US healthcare provider that needs to protect patient data and comply with HIPAA regulations.

Why choose SecQuest’s managed security service?

Our managed security service brings you piece of mind by providing you with oversight of your organisation’s security, allowing you to focus your resources on business growth whilst our team of experts handle your day-to-day and long term security operational goals and requirements.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can support your cyber security needs.